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WO is cool once you did something by using 20+% of
its power.
But this is only from developer's view
point.
From manager point jof view:
(1) small user group;
(2) limited official develop/deploy
plantform;
(3) Nothing attractive enough
non-technically;
these should be enough reasons to leave
WO
Obviously if WO supports windows and linux, (2)
will be gone and
the user group will getting bigger.
The efforts of porting WO to linux in classic
and popular sense are
quite successful: GnuSTEP, SOEP and
WO-direct-transplanting.
But not many win developers ever heard about WO. As
long as
EOF still quite alien to cocoa developers, WO will
not be so
attractive even to
many apple developers. (So windows and objC
are important to WO)
Situation will not change too much if the strength
of WO is only
appreciated by WO developers. What if the following
become
standard and easily
customizable/localizable
*Affair Editor/Publisher for business managers to
manage affairs
(eg. events like conferences, sales,
etc)
*Content management tools for business people
instead of developers
*Survey Creator/Publisher/ResponseAnalyser for
business analyser
*Business Rule editor and generic executor for
business rule maker
I believe WO/EOF can help achieve the above much
easier than
other techs (some of
my work shows the feasibility). That's why
I'll not leave WO.
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